[Dxbase] AXETTY and slashed zero

[Joe WA6AXE]

Gary,

I will look deep into this and will report back to the Reflector
- once I have found the area to be changed/modified.

Tnx !!

73 Joe wa6axe

> From: al9a at mtaonline.net
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:34:33 -0900
> Subject: [Dxbase] AXETTY and slashed zero
> 
> On Dec. 4 I had a QSO with UA0FAI on RTTY using AXETTY.  Everything went 
> fine and the contact was logged into DXB without a problem.  However, today 
> when I attempted to create a tq8 file for upload to LOTW I got an error 
> message that UA0FIA (slashed zero in the call sign) was an invalid amateur 
> call.  This puzzled me as I have worked Gennady before on SSB and CW and 
> those contacts uploaded without a problem.
> 
> I went into the adi file itself and tried to find UA0FAI and got the message 
> not found.  I then searched on the suffix FAI and found the call.  In 
> looking at the info I noticed some errors in the adi file.  The length of 
> the <PFX> field was 2, UA, not 3, UA0.  Also the <DXBPFX> field was 6, 
> UA0FAI, the full call instead of just the 3 position prefix.  After studying 
> this a bit I decided that the problem was the slashed zero in the call.  I 
> edited all the slashed zeros to unslashed zeros and corrected the lengths of 
> the two prefix fields and the associated data and saved the file.  This time 
> when I used TQSL to create a tq8 file the process went without incident and 
> the tq8 file uploaded to LOTW.
> 
> I just checked the Settings/General Setup tab in AXETTY and unchecked the 
> use slashed zero font option.  The question though is why would this be a 
> problem between AXETTY and DXB?  Has anyone else ever run into this before? 
> BTW, I am not using a slashed font in DXB so maybe this is the problem? 
> Perhaps Joe could shed some light on the subject.
> 
> 73,
> Gary AL9A
> 
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